DBA Team Structure – Thoughts From Real Life
I once talked about the DBA team building about 3 years ago, now when I look back, I still believe...
2011-11-20
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Jeffrey Yao
Find the largest tables in a database (II)
I once wrote a post to find the largest tables in a database, and now after studying PowerShell, I feel...
2011-09-18
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Job Exit Planning Strategy
I feel somehow sad today (Aug 31, 2011) to see one of my colleagues “laid-off”. I put quotation mark around...
2011-09-01
1,886 reads
Thoughts on DBA Professional Development
As a DBA, we have a lot to work on and also we have a lot to learn about. The...
2011-08-20
1,391 reads
Counting code lines in SPs with Powershell
One of interesting tasks I once had is to check the # of code lines for all user stored procedures (SPs)...
2011-08-14
1,401 reads
Database Administration Operation Road Map
In my company, every two years, we have a tradition to collectively ponder at the technology road map for the...
2011-08-13
2,330 reads
Delete backup files older than days
For almost all sql backup jobs, we want to have a step to delete old backup files older than a...
2011-08-06
4,520 reads
Find the largest tables in a database
From time to time, I need to find the largest tables in terms of rows / used space / total space etc....
2010-09-28
32,989 reads
Restart SQL Server Default Trace
One of my test servers, due to the unexpected growth of a user db, the local drive is used up,...
2010-08-13
11,985 reads
Proposals to win a MSDN Subscription
Recently quite a few MVPs (here, here and here ) are handling out MSDN Ultimate subscriptions in the community. What interests...
2010-07-08
1,169 reads
Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 5: Notebooks, Hugging face models and Fine Tuning
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 4 where we learned Encoder, Decoder, and Attention Mechanism, today we...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 4: Transformers – Encoder, Decoder, and Attention
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 3 where we covered LLM models open/closed and their parameters, Today...
Flyway Tips: Multiple Projects
By Steve Jones
One of the nice things about Flyway Desktop is that it helps you manage...
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String Similarity II
What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
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